Kharn
screamed as the fire rippled his body. He was a Deamon and was immune to the
electrical charges of the Lexicanums, but he wasn´t immune to fire. Not even
macigal.
"You little brat!!" Kharn roared as he staggered to his feet.
He gave Double D a really hard hit from his fist, so Double D flew right into a
pile of cars. Luckily enough, the pile didn´t tip over.
Eddy was lying panting on the ground about 15 yards from Kharn.
"Double D risked his life for me. And I won´t let him give his life for
mine. I´m not worth it." Eddy thought to himself.
"Hi Eddy!" Ed said as came to. "Is the Deamon dead?"
"No he´s not."
"Good, because I want to kill him." Ed said as he got to his feet.
"I´m with you pal."
Kharn
was now very badly wounded. He didn´t like this at all. How could a bunch of
Space Outlaws and a Commissar beat him, a Deamon Prince of Khaine. He was
frustrated over the thought.
He took out his axe once more and mustering his last powers, he swung it in a
wide arch.
He heared a scratching noise and as he pulled back the axe, the head of the axe
was gone. Instead, it lay at the feet of Eddy.
"You´re better than usual with those Lightning Claws, Captain." Kharn
said as he stood up properly on his hind legs.
He now saw that all three Space Outlaws and Commissar Rolf Yarrick had him
surrounded. But not completly.
"Do
you give up yet, deamon filth?" Double D asked from behind a Plasma gun
fully charged up with plasma. The container was glowing almost white, and the
plasma container is usually green.
"You may have won the battle, but not the war!!" Kharn said and a
Warp-hole appeared from nowhere.
"We´ll meet again sometime, but I doubt it." Kharn said and dove
after the hole.
"Get him!!" Eddy shouted and made a gigantic leap after the deamon. His
Lightning Claws buried themselves deep into Kharn´s left leg. Ed followed the
example and took the right leg with his Power sword.
Kharn knocked Ed off his leg without greater problems, but Eddy was a completly
different matter.
The Lightning Claws are a part of the Terminator suit and so, Kharn did
something very hazardous, for Eddy´s part. He ripped off the claws from the
suit, which left claws and gauntlets in Kharn´s leg, but it gave Eddy a hideous
electrical shock. He flew backwards about 30 yards and landed with a crash on
the roof of a car. Completly unconcious.
"As I said." Kharn said as he tried to get to his feet, which wasn´t
easy."We´ll meet again."
He dove into the hole but Double D was not slow to respond.
"Oh no, you don´t!!" he shouted and shot a light blue ball of plasma
at Kharn.
It missed his head with half an inch.
It
took a couple of seconds, but then there was a hideous explosion. Double D
didn´t know it, but he´d hit the Warp-generator and thus destroyed the entire
Warp-gate. As the Warp-gate closed so suddenly, there was an extra explosion
when it closed as Warp-fields must be properly stabilised to be used, and the
sudden drain of power made the entire Warp-hole explode.
(This is getting hard to explain)
Ed, Double D and Commissar Rolf was also knocked into the car where Eddy was
lying.
Then, every thing went black for the Outlaws.
Kevin
was cycling down the cul-de-sac, when he heared a hideous blast. The sudden
noise made him lose the control over the bike and he crash-landed in some
bushes.
"What the heck was that?" he thought to himself when lying there.
He got up and looked around. The blast had affected everybody in the
cul-de-sac.
Sarah and Jimmy, who had been on the swings, was now lying on the ground. Jimmy
had, luckily enough for him, landed on Sarah. Jonny and Plank had both gone
down onto the pavement and Jonny seemed to have a serious discussion with Plank
on what it could have been.
Kevin walked up to Jonny. Jonny noticed this and said:
"Plank says it was the Eds who where behind this."
"The Eds?! I should have guessed." Kevin said surprised. "What
are those dorks up to now?"
Meanwhile,
the Eds and Commissar Rolf was slowly coming to...
"Uhh...." Ed said quietly. "Who has locked a truck into my
head?"
"Not me." the reply came from Double D. "Are you okay
Commissar?"
"Yes, except the fact that yoko-ono is singing Bee-Gee´s in my mind."
"Eddy?"
"I´m fine. The armour took the most of the blast."
"You´re right. Our armour protected us against the blast."
"That was one heckuvva blast!" Ed shouted.
"But, how come you´re not hurt, Rolf?" Eddy asked without really
thinking.
"Commissar Rolf, if you please." the answer came.
"Yeah, whatever."
"I think my spirit-barrier took the most."
"You know that you´re a spirit?" Double D asked surprised as he got
up.
"Yes, this body is to agile for being mine."
"Oh, so you knew all the time, huh?"
"Yes."
Ed, Eddy and Commissar Rolf also got to their feet. Commissar Rolf went away a
bit and picked up his sword from the ground. It was scratch-less. He sheathed
his sword and looked on the Eds as they removed their armour.
"What are you doing?" Commissar Rolf asked.
"We don´t need this anymore." Eddy´s answer came.
"Besides, when you turn back to Rolf, you can´t see us in this
armour." Double D added.
"Where will we hide it?" Ed asked.
"On the same place we hid the others armour of course, monobrow." Eddy´s
snapping answer came.
"Eddy, you´re back to your normal self." Double D´s happy answer came
when he heared what Eddy said. "Maybe we are all slowly turning normal
again?"
"Can you hurry up? I want to get back into my Spirit-ball."
"Yes, sir!" the answer came from the Eds.
Not much more can be told of what the Eds did that day. They hid the armour
very well and Double D used the Spirit-ball on Commissar Rolf when they had
gotten back to the cul-de-sac.
Rolf didn´t understand anything, but the Eds didn´t tell him of what he´d done.
They instead told Rolf why he was with them. As Eddy said:
"We have taken care of your animals and you went here to pay us."
At least Eddy´s still got his sense for scamming.
But
there was one who wasn´t happy at all with the Eds victory.
"YARRICK!!"
Kharn roared. He was now home in his newly built throne-room. Some Genestealer
Cultists were busy collecting the stuff that Kharn had threwn into the wall.
"This is the second time he stops me from taking over a world!!"
"Calm down, oh mighty Kharn." Draconis said calmly. "It´s over
now."
"Yes, I know. But I lost!"
"The main thing is that they didn´t kill you."
"I was only lucky that you opened the Warp-gate and I felt it."
"I felt that you were in trouble and decided to open the hole."
"Smart done."
"But I belive that Rolf Yarrick only was lucky too, huh?"
"Stupidly asked. He´s not lucky, he makes his luck!"
"But...but.."
"And the same goes for the Space Outlaws of the Omega Squadron! They make
their luck up! And their Lexicanum then. I´ve never seen such a powerful
youngster. He knows more than McKenzie does."
"Well, at least you´ve got this solar-system and a couple of more. Besides,
we´ve found a warrior race of green-skinned, brawny species."
"Good fighters?"
"Yes."
"Intelligent?"
"Not so very much, but they know of space travel at least."
"Perfect specimens for my training. What do you call them?"
"Orks."
"Good job Draconis!!" Kharn shouted in joy. "Who cares if I
didn´t beat the Space Outlaws? I´ve have new enemies. Khaine will be satisfied
and I´ll become a living god!"
Kharn laughter echoed into the night as Betelguese settled on Secondus 2.
>2 days later,
Peach Creek hospital<
"Mr McGranth? You have some visitors. Your friends and ,I belive, your
sons." the nurse said.
McGranth realized it was the Eds, McKenzie and Charleston.
"They can come in." he answered.
"Hiya!" Eddy said as he ran in and jumped up into the bed in which
McGranth was lying. He landed bang on where the wound was.
"Aaooww! Take it easy, kid!" McGranth shouted when Eddy landed on the
wound.
"Sorry." Eddy said and got down to the floor.
"Eddie, your scar is gone." McKenzie said as he looked at McGranth.
"The one by my eye? I know. They have some laser-technique to remove such
things."
"When will you get out from the hospital?" Charleston asked worried.
"Today." McGranth got out of the bed. "Let´s go outside."
As
the Eds and the other three got outside, McGranth said calmly:
"I want to have a little chat on my own with Eddy here."
"Of course you can have that." McKenzie soft answer came. "I
wanted the same with Double D here."
McKenzie and Double D left.
"Ed, what are you waiting for? A bus?" Eddy snapped.
"But I don´t know what to do with Charleston?" Ed said.
"Go see a monster movie." McGranth said. "I know Charleston
likes them and maybe you do too?"
"Good idea." Ed said and left with Charleston.
As
Charleston and Ed walked along, Ed said:
"I know excactly which one to see. It´s called; "Zombie Sandwhiches
from Pluto". I´ve heared they´ve used a new kind of technique to create
the zombie sandwhiches."
"Never heared of it, but it sounds great." Charleston answered.
When
Charleston and Ed disappeared from sight McGranth sat down on a nearby bench.
"Finally they´re gone. I don´t know why I feel so old?"
"Maybe it´s because you´re acctually about 500 years old?" Eddy
answered.
"So you know?"
"Yep, Double D told me, but I thought it had to be that way when you said
Commissar Rolf and the others were dead by age. What I remember, you were
already leaders of the Space Marines when we first met you."
"That´s right."
They both sat quiet for a while.
"I have this creeping feeling in my body." McGranth said just to
break the silence.
"Whaddya mean?"
"It must be beacuse of the absence of the armour." McGranth said to
himself.
"Hello, I want an answer on my question." Eddy called out.
"So haven´t your friend Double D told ya yet?"
"Told me what?"
"That the armour you were wearing, has been worn by hundreds of Outlaws
before you?"
"You must be kidding?"
"No I´m not, think on it for a while."
"Now when you mention it, I remember that Ed had no problems in steering
Tycho."
"It just because he had the memories of how to steer one inside the
crystal on the chest-plate."
"I thought it just were for decoration."
"Well, it isn´t. We were told how to make them by the Eldar under our
first alliance."
"That explains why every Eldar soldier have a small crystal on their
armour."
"So what is that creeping feeling?" Eddy asked again.
"I don´t really know, I want to, how can I explain it? Scam someone."
"Welcome to the club. It must be your original personality coming
back."
"Guess so."
"I know the perfect pidgeons." Eddy said and got up. "Coming
with me?"
"Of course. I haven´t scammed anyone for about 500 years."
"Wow! I couldn´t take a day without scamming someone."
The two walked away from the hospital.
"So, which ones are these "pidgeons"?." McGranth asked.
"Some friends of mine." Eddy answered and smiled.
"What
are you saying?" Double D asked shocked.
"I mean excactly what I´m saying." McKenzies reply came.
The two were walking down one of the streets in town.
"Will I lose all my psionical powers?"
"In time. And you´ll not lose them, just forget how to use them."
Double D suddenly stopped.
"What is it?" McKenzie asked.
"I was wondering. Was your Eddie also a prank-master when you were
young?"
"IF he was." McKenzie said and got a dark look on his face.
"He had to scam and prank every neighborhood kid. And the fact that we had
Space Marine DNA in us, was a certain insurance no-one screwed with us." McKenzie
kept on going.
"Just like our Eddy."
"But in certain times, that didn´t help at all. We were sometimes really
"Fubar"."
"Fubar? What does that mean?"
"Ehh..." McKenzie
hesitated. "Here,
I´ll write it down on a scrap paper."
McKenzie picked up paper and pen from his pockets. On the paper he wrote:
"Fouled Up Beyond All Reason = FUBAR"
Double D looked at the note.
"Oh." he said softly.
"It´s not very nice, but we were really Fubar sometimes."
"WE are almost Fubar every day. Eddy´s scams always, well almost always,
fails."
"You too, huh?"
Suddenly
Eddy, Ed, Charleston and McGranth came running towards them.
(Please note that the grown Eds have normal running styles.)
"Guess what we´re going to do tonight, Double D?" Eddy panted.
"I have no idea Eddy."
"We´re going to have a party." McGranth said, holding one hand on the
belly-wound.
"With fire-works." Ed said happily.
"Psionical ones." Charleston added.
"Eddy, one question. Why?" Double D asked.
"It´s simple Double D. To lure the kids on....." Eddy hesitated.
"Their food." McGranth filled in. "It´s going to be a Dutch
party."
"Eddie McGranth." McKenzie sighed. "You´re back to your old
self."
"Yep, and you´ll never get me into a Terminator-suit again, Edward!"
"Why not call me Double D like you did when we were young?"
"I thought you hated that nickname?"
"Not anymore." McKenzie said and looked at Double D, who blushed
slightly. "And there´s a reason."
"I don´t wanna hear why."
"Will ya stop yapping! We have a party to arrange." Eddy said
suddenly.
"Eddie, if your egoism does such a come-back, you can count on a sock on
your right eye." McKenzie whispered to McGranth.
"Really?" McGranth answer came.
And
so, the six Eds walked off home towards the cul-de-sac.
And the party was going to be hold at Double D´s backyard. Luckily enough, his
parents weren´t home by the time. They had left at 9 a.m for their works and
Double D´s mom had written a note that they were going to be gone for a couple
of days.
The
party itself was a blast.
In more than one way. At 10.00 p.m , McKenzie and Double D went a bit offside
and sent up the psionical fire-works. Even though Double D should have resisted
it, he sent a blue bolt after Kevin, who got it right in his bottom. Eddy and
McGranth was lying on the ground laughing their heads off at the sight.
Rolf had wondered earlier were the "grown Ed-boys" were coming from. Eddy
answered quickly that McGranth was his brother, McKenzie Double D´s cousin and
Charleston a far off relative to Ed.
When Double D and McKenzie returned after the psionical fire-works, which
everybody thought were real ones, they got enthusiasctic apluases from
everybody, except Kevin.
"You dorks almost killed me!" he shouted at them.
McGranth and Charleston had a hard time keeping McKenzie from Kevin.
"I want his head on a plate!" McKenzie roared when McGranth told him
to cool down.
Not much more happened that evening.
When
all the guests had left, the Eds began to clean the backyard. McGranth found
Charleston standing just still and looking at the Orion.
"What is it Ed?" McGranth asked.
"I miss home." the reply came.
"I can understand that, but Earth is our new home now. Edward, I mean
Double D, was talking about that he´d fixed everything. I belive we in some way
excist on this planet too."
McGranth and Charleston walked up to McKenzie and the Eds.
"So, I guess this is good-bye?" Eddy said sadly.
"Not entirely." McKenzie said softly. "We´ll always remember
each other, right?"
"Right." Double D answered.
They walked to the front. Three motorcycles were standing there. McKenzie
claimed that he´d got them fair and square, but McGranth didn´t really trust
him.
The motorcycles were of these brands: a Honda 800cc, a Harley Davidson 1200cc
and a BMW 1000cc.
McGranth got on the Harley, Charleston on the Honda and McKenzie on the BMW. They
all had the same sort of helmets. Roadracing ones.
"Keep up the scammin´, kid." McGranth said to Eddy as they ignited the
engiens and drove off into the night.
The Eds stood there for a moment, till they heared Kevin yell:
"Keep it down ya dorks! Some people are trying to sleep here!"
The Eds looked at each other and replied in unison:
"Shut up, Kevin!"